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After the Referendum: One Year On is the work of a writing and editorial group of SEARCH's Voice Treaty Working Group (VTTWG). The VTTWG has written the following as an introduction to the document:

Dear Friend

After the Referendum: One Year On

The SEARCH Foundation is publisher of After the Referendum: One Year On.

This short pamphlet is a companion piece to our comprehensive analysis of the 2023 Referendum on the Voice to Parliament, AFTER THE REFERENDUM: Learning from the Fight for Justice for Australia’s First Nations People, published in October 2024.

It summarises key arguments of Learning from the Fight for Justice, especially the reasons for the failure of the Yes Campaign and its consequences.

It includes the most recent reflections of prominent First Nations leaders on the Referendum, and their heartfelt call to Allies to now actively speak up and rejoin the struggle.

We outline the essentials of a progressive response, and the vital steps towards achieving justice for all Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander peoples.

Recent disturbing developments sharpen the urgency of our cause. Peter Dutton will reverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait public policy should the LNP win the federal election. Mimicking the populist right in the US, New Zealand, the LNP will return us to Australia’s catastrophic assimilationist past.

In summary, read with the more comprehensive Learning from the Fight for Justice; One Year On offers an informed analysis of the failure of the Yes Campaign and the political options towards achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' self-determined –justice and rights. Simple actions now, for example, include mobilising resistance to the abolition of Welcome to Country proposed by some state, territory and local governments.

We hope that the political analysis of One Year On will stimulate the important conversations and activism our nation must now have - After the Referendum.

Please share it widely, with family, friends, civil society and your political networks - and urge all to action.

You can easily copy, print or email the PDF or a link to One Year On here.

Access AFTER THE REFERENDUM: Learning from the Fight for Justice for Australia’s First Nations People here.

In Unity

The Voice Treaty Truth Working Group of the SEARCH Foundation, March 2025